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Best Action Scenes of All-Time: Jackie Chan - All the Rest

*Last Updated 8/27/2023 Click Here for the Top Ten Essential Jackie Chan Action Sequences Click Here for a Guide to All of Jackie Chan's Films Click Here for the Top Ten Essential Jackie Chan Films (Coming Soon) If you have found yourself at this page, then that must mean you more than a passing interest in Jackie Chan or in action cinema. For those who just want to get straight to what I think are Jackie's Top 10 most essential/best action sequences then CLICK HERE . You will find there a thorough introduction to Jackie and what makes his action sequences so unique. If you are still here with me than what you'll find on this page is my rating and ranking of all the rest of Jackie's actions sequences, which is no small task! According to my action database, most major action stars and even entire beloved franchises struggle to provide a handful or so A to A+ sequences. Jackie alone can fill out a top 10 for me! In fact, the number of B+ and A- sequences that di

WWII Film Guide: Naval Warfare

*Last Updated: 1/1/2024 *This post is part of a film guide on World War II. Click here for the main page *For more context on the process behind this guide, click here for an introduction Introduction: The 1960 film The Gallant Hours opens with a haunting choral theme , "I knew a lad who went to sea and left the shore behind him. I knew him well the lad was me and now I cannot find him. Away, away, away he went, in deep and salty water." The theme seems to stir up something in the listener and touch that strange and mystical connection humans have had with the sea for thousands of years. It reminds me a bit of the mysteriously affective opening shot of the dark and deep ocean in Titanic . Our naval vessels may traverse the giant sea, but seem to do so only by leave of the ocean; a permission that can be rescinded at any given moment. The sea makes us feel small. The sea reminds humans that we are not in control. Our ships are little floating islands of civilization in a va

Best Action Scenes of All-Time: Western Films Edition

*Last Updated: 7/7/2022 I never dreamed of being town Sheriff, the outlaw Jesse James, riding shotgun for the Texas Rangers , or jumping train to train with the Lone Ranger. Unlike John McClane, I was never partial to Roy Rogers over John Wayne or Clint Eastwood - mostly because I didn't really care about any of them. My Dad enjoyed Eastwood films, but they never made that much sense to me. By the time I was a kid, the American Western was on the decline. If you wanted to see "great action" when I was growing up, you turned to James Bond , Indiana Jones , Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Jean-Claude Van Damme , or if you were lucky enough to be in the know - Hong Kong cinema ! It hasn't been until I began researching for this particular list in my action scene series that I've come to a greater appreciation of this genre. Still, for an action junkie like me, the Western genre isn't the first (or the second or third) genre I think about when it come

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